[DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in Chch?

[Jeremy North]

I strongly suggest forming your own opinion. While I don't read the
blog I've converted a number of applications to Delphi 2009 / 2010 and
haven't come across anything that was a great hassle to fix. Perhaps I
didn't run into any issues raised in the blog, who knows. You never
will know if you don't try it and I highly doubt they (Embarcadero)
will change the implementation now.

There is a Delphi 2010 trial you can download.

Worst case scenario you could just change all strings to AnsiString
and all Chars to AnsiChar. You'll still need to be wary anyway.

A component suite I sell works for Delphi 5 to Delphi 2010 and
supports unicode from Delphi 2006 onwards - even on Win9x machines.
Naturally the custom unicode support had to be turned off for Delphi
2009 and above and there were only minor code changes throughout.

Separate Ansi and Unicode VCLs are not a viable solution. Delphi does
cop a whack because of C++ support though.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Paul,
> "The only hassle is porting from D7 to D2010 with respect to Unicode."
> After reading a very comprehensive  blog by Jolyon Smith, I am quite
> concerned about D.s current unicode support.  I've had enough trouble with
> it in other environments to want to face the maze that appears to be there
> from what Jolyon wrote.
> Paul
>
> 2009/10/14 Paul Hectors <paul.hectors at gmail.com>
>>
>> re: 64bit vs cross platform
>>
>> I totally understand why Jolyon and others that want 64 bit are
>> peeved. Embarcadero has mislead them a number of times now and I was
>> shocked to here in Auckland that it will be another 2 years.
>>
>> However I am not one of those people waiting for 64 bit. I think
>> Embarcadero has made some better moves so far by dropping Delphi .NET
>> and utilising RemObjects compiler.
>> Delphi 2010 looks to be a very good version, still early days for me
>> but a lot of the features in D2010 is what I have personally been
>> waiting for. The only hassle is porting from D7 to D2010 with respect
>> to Unicode.
>>
>> I think it is anyones guess whether Embarcadero are making the right
>> move, what I do believe is that the face of desktop computing is
>> changing. I think we are seeing the start of more platforms, different
>> interfaces and major demand for mobile computing. In the mobility
>> area, touch interface is definitely having an impact as the iPhone has
>> rocked the market.
>> What impact is the Google OS going to have over the next few years?
>> What other players are going to come into the market? is the tablet PC
>> going to replace the laptop?
>>
>> One of my concern with cross platform is are Embarcadero targeting the
>> right platforms. Should it be iPhone and or other mobile platforms?
>>
>> Instead of compiling a simple app for different platforms, I would be
>> a lot happier with a compiler and a vcl like library for the various
>> mobile platforms.
>>
>> My 2 cents.
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